According to the above link my PC is now running 2 BRP-4G tasks.* Previously dozens of these tasks failed to initialize due to "access denied" errors (see my OP). Per Gary's suggestion I (once again) checked my AV settings and apparently this time I correctly excluded these tasks from being monitored in real-time ie my Avast AV monitors programs as they are executed, as they execute scripts and as they load DLLs - but it can be instructed to ignore monitoring 1, 2 or all 3 of these actions for any program you list as an exclusion. I'll post the results of these 2 tasks after they're done running.
*Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo, GPU) v1.39 (BRP4G-opencl-ati)
I'm very sorry you've adopted that attitude and I sincerely hope you will reconsider. There was no intention on my part to offend you.
Message boards in general and the 'Problems' board in particular are where people having issues come to get help. It's not much use to them (or to many others who are lurking, for that matter) if they get instructions that aren't really going to solve the issue at hand. If I suspect there is a better answer, it's really my job to point that out and to spell out the reasoning behind it. That way, both the OP and any interested lurkers can weigh up the suggestions and make their own decisions about what is best for them.
On my part, there is never anything personal in expressing disagreement with a stated point-of-view. People are quite welcome to express their opinion but also should be able to see that opinion challenged by a counter opinion if someone thinks differently. Quite often problems are solved by different opinions being thrown together and openly discussed.
I (once again) checked my AV settings and apparently this time I correctly excluded these tasks from being monitored in real-time ie my Avast AV monitors programs as they are executed, as they execute scripts and as they load DLLs - but it can be instructed to ignore monitoring 1, 2 or all 3 of these actions for any program you list as an exclusion. I'll post the results of these 2 tasks after they're done running.
There may be a message here that one can imagine one has checked the possibility of security software effects but one is wrong.
True story: I very recently was involved in a thread on a weather reporting software site involving sudden inability of the weather program on a given PC to post data to a publicly visible site. The original poster was an Avast user, and I am a Kaspersky user. When the software author advised us both that the likely cause of our trouble (with specific symptoms) was security software, we both responded that we had already checked that. We both were wrong. In my specific case, telling my software (Kaspersky) to "pause protection" was not enough to avert the problem. I don't know just what the Avast user had done, but he too had falsely concluded that his security software was not his problem.
I (once again) checked my AV settings and apparently this time I correctly excluded these tasks from being monitored in real-time ie my Avast AV monitors programs as they are executed, as they execute scripts and as they load DLLs - but it can be instructed to ignore monitoring 1, 2 or all 3 of these actions for any program you list as an exclusion. I'll post the results of these 2 tasks after they're done running.
There may be a message here that one can imagine one has checked the possibility of security software effects but one is wrong.
True story: I very recently was involved in a thread on a weather reporting software site involving sudden inability of the weather program on a given PC to post data to a publicly visible site. The original poster was an Avast user, and I am a Kaspersky user. When the software author advised us both that the likely cause of our trouble (with specific symptoms) was security software, we both responded that we had already checked that. We both were wrong. In my specific case, telling my software (Kaspersky) to "pause protection" was not enough to avert the problem. I don't know just what the Avast user had done, but he too had falsely concluded that his security software was not his problem.
Security software can be a bit mysterious.
I have struggled with 'security software' too, not here but at other projects. It can be tough to get the security stuff to ignore things when Boinc does so many things in so many places. I'm guessing this is a Windows thing and not JUST a Boinc thing.
Unfortunately my last post was too optimistic, the BRP-4 tasks are still not being created due to the access denied error. I've stopped trying to run them for the time being in order to take care of some non-BOINC matters. I'm also in the haphazard but ongoing process of cleaning up an external HD to be used for installing & running Ubuntu & if that works out OK I plan on switching over to the Linux version of BOINC which I'm hoping will make all my access denied errors a thing of the past. Or make me tear out what little hair I have left learning a new OS, but I'm optimistic after running Ubuntu in demo mode one nite & seeing how user-friendly it was.
In the meantime all my other BOINC tasks seem to be getting done without any problems
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http://einsteinathome.org/account/tasks
According to the above link my PC is now running 2 BRP-4G tasks.* Previously dozens of these tasks failed to initialize due to "access denied" errors (see my OP). Per Gary's suggestion I (once again) checked my AV settings and apparently this time I correctly excluded these tasks from being monitored in real-time ie my Avast AV monitors programs as they are executed, as they execute scripts and as they load DLLs - but it can be instructed to ignore monitoring 1, 2 or all 3 of these actions for any program you list as an exclusion. I'll post the results of these 2 tasks after they're done running.
*Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo, GPU) v1.39 (BRP4G-opencl-ati)
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RE: ... my PC is now
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I'm very pleased to hear that you've got it sorted out.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: .... I'm outta
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I'm very sorry you've adopted that attitude and I sincerely hope you will reconsider. There was no intention on my part to offend you.
Message boards in general and the 'Problems' board in particular are where people having issues come to get help. It's not much use to them (or to many others who are lurking, for that matter) if they get instructions that aren't really going to solve the issue at hand. If I suspect there is a better answer, it's really my job to point that out and to spell out the reasoning behind it. That way, both the OP and any interested lurkers can weigh up the suggestions and make their own decisions about what is best for them.
On my part, there is never anything personal in expressing disagreement with a stated point-of-view. People are quite welcome to express their opinion but also should be able to see that opinion challenged by a counter opinion if someone thinks differently. Quite often problems are solved by different opinions being thrown together and openly discussed.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: I (once again) checked
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There may be a message here that one can imagine one has checked the possibility of security software effects but one is wrong.
True story: I very recently was involved in a thread on a weather reporting software site involving sudden inability of the weather program on a given PC to post data to a publicly visible site. The original poster was an Avast user, and I am a Kaspersky user. When the software author advised us both that the likely cause of our trouble (with specific symptoms) was security software, we both responded that we had already checked that. We both were wrong. In my specific case, telling my software (Kaspersky) to "pause protection" was not enough to avert the problem. I don't know just what the Avast user had done, but he too had falsely concluded that his security software was not his problem.
Security software can be a bit mysterious.
RE: RE: I (once again)
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I have struggled with 'security software' too, not here but at other projects. It can be tough to get the security stuff to ignore things when Boinc does so many things in so many places. I'm guessing this is a Windows thing and not JUST a Boinc thing.
Unfortunately my last post
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Unfortunately my last post was too optimistic, the BRP-4 tasks are still not being created due to the access denied error. I've stopped trying to run them for the time being in order to take care of some non-BOINC matters. I'm also in the haphazard but ongoing process of cleaning up an external HD to be used for installing & running Ubuntu & if that works out OK I plan on switching over to the Linux version of BOINC which I'm hoping will make all my access denied errors a thing of the past. Or make me tear out what little hair I have left learning a new OS, but I'm optimistic after running Ubuntu in demo mode one nite & seeing how user-friendly it was.
In the meantime all my other BOINC tasks seem to be getting done without any problems
CIAO - Auf Wiedersehen - ALOHA - Saludos - SHALOM - Sayonara - ADIEU - 明朝会ADIOS - להתראות - G'DAY!